Austin, Texas -- These are complicated times for ambitious women," says executive coach Ann Daly PhD. "On the one hand, there are record numbers of women at the top of industry. This year’s woman-to-woman CEO succession at Xerox was a remarkable milestone. On the other hand, the glass ceiling remains firmly in place: Although women hold 50.8% of managerial positions in the labor market, they represent only 3% of Fortune 500 CEOs."
But, as Dr. Daly points out, the question remains: "Why are women still lagging behind? Why are women’s success stories still the exceptions that prove the rule?"
In her debut guest column for more.com, Dr. Daly offers an answer.
"Because beyond laws and regulations and attitude is the deepest, most pervasive, most unconscious and ingrained layer of our lives: culture. All of our laws and all of our diversity training won’t close the gender gap, because it’s the culture, sweetheart."
Dr. Daly goes on to outline the top 10 unwritten cultural rules that can sabotage women's careers:
1. Men get the benefit of the doubt.
2. Looks matter
3. Women don't get sufficient feedback.
4. A working mother's commitment is assumed to be ambivalent.
5. Actually, it is personal.
6. Men are bred for self-confidence.
7. Women are rendered invisible until they demonstrate otherwise.
8. Women don't take charge, they take care.
9. Women are different.
10. Women make great worker-bees, but visionary leaders--not so much.
To read the entire article: http://budurl.com/e9dl
To request an interview, contact Ann Daly at: 512/454-0531 or media (at) anndaly (dot) com.
ANN DALY PhD (http://www.anndaly.com) empowers women to get clear about what they want and how to get it. Before reinventing herself as an executive coach, she was a journalist and then a women’s studies professor. She is the “Transitions” coaching columnist for Your Austin magazine and author of Clarity: How to Accomplish What Matters Most and A Year of Clarity: The Monthly Guide for Women. She has been featured on Oprah & Friends’ “Peter Walsh Show” and in the Austin American-Statesman.
But, as Dr. Daly points out, the question remains: "Why are women still lagging behind? Why are women’s success stories still the exceptions that prove the rule?"
In her debut guest column for more.com, Dr. Daly offers an answer.
"Because beyond laws and regulations and attitude is the deepest, most pervasive, most unconscious and ingrained layer of our lives: culture. All of our laws and all of our diversity training won’t close the gender gap, because it’s the culture, sweetheart."
Dr. Daly goes on to outline the top 10 unwritten cultural rules that can sabotage women's careers:
1. Men get the benefit of the doubt.
2. Looks matter
3. Women don't get sufficient feedback.
4. A working mother's commitment is assumed to be ambivalent.
5. Actually, it is personal.
6. Men are bred for self-confidence.
7. Women are rendered invisible until they demonstrate otherwise.
8. Women don't take charge, they take care.
9. Women are different.
10. Women make great worker-bees, but visionary leaders--not so much.
To read the entire article: http://budurl.com/e9dl
To request an interview, contact Ann Daly at: 512/454-0531 or media (at) anndaly (dot) com.
ANN DALY PhD (http://www.anndaly.com) empowers women to get clear about what they want and how to get it. Before reinventing herself as an executive coach, she was a journalist and then a women’s studies professor. She is the “Transitions” coaching columnist for Your Austin magazine and author of Clarity: How to Accomplish What Matters Most and A Year of Clarity: The Monthly Guide for Women. She has been featured on Oprah & Friends’ “Peter Walsh Show” and in the Austin American-Statesman.